大家好！最近都熬夜看比賽了嗎？有沒有被“洪荒少女”的傅園慧萌到呢？

本期Tip Talk節目中，Nelly和Greg會跟大家分享一些奧運會歷史上曾經真實發生過的奇葩或者有趣的事情。

Bizarre fact 1: The 400m final at the 1908 London games was ordered to be re-run because American John Carpenter blocked Wyndham Halswelle - a move legal in the States but outlawed in Britain. Carpenter was disqualified and the other two finalists, both Americans, refused to re-race, so Halswelle jogged alone round the track and took gold.
在1908年倫敦奧運會上，400m決賽因為美國選手約翰?卡彭特擋在溫德姆?霍斯韋爾前面而下令重跑。這中阻擋動作在美國是允許的，但在英國卻是被禁止的。卡彭特和另外兩名進入決賽的美國選手被取消參賽資格。結果，霍斯韋爾獨自在跑道上慢跑并了獲得金牌。

Bizarre fact 2: Though modern Olympians shoot at clay pigeons, contestants in the 1900 Games took aim at real birds. More than 300 were killed, 21 of them by winner Leon de Lunden of Belgium.
早期現代奧運射擊比賽的靶子是泥鴿，不過，在1900年奧運會上參賽者瞄準射擊的是真鴿子。當年奧運期間有300多只鴿子被射殺，其中被冠軍比利時選手列昂?蘭登射殺的有21只。

Bizarre fact 3: The 1500m victory of Luxembourg's Josy Barthel at the 1952 Games was so unexpected officials had not brought along the score to the tiny state's national anthem. With Barthel waiting on the podium, the band were forced to improvise and did well enough - or, indeed, badly enough - for the runner to bury his head in his hands and begin to weep.
1952年的奧運會上，盧森堡選手若西?巴特爾在1500m比賽中意外獲勝，現場工作人員連人家國家的國歌都沒有準備。巴特爾站在領獎臺上等待著，樂隊被迫現場演奏，也不知是樂隊演奏太好還是太差，這位運動員當時就雙手抱頭哭起來了。

Bizarre fact 4: American Fred Lorz's marathon victory in the 1904 St Louis games was overturned when it was revealed he had hitched a lift in a car for most of the distance before racing to the finish from four miles out.
在1904年圣路易斯奧運會上，美國選手弗萊德?羅茨在馬拉松比賽中的金牌被取消，因為后來發現他在距離終點4英里之前的大部分賽程中搭了輛便車。

Bizarre fact 5: Modern games founder Baron Pierre de Coubertin introduced an arts competition at the 1912 Stockholm Games. The gold medal winner for literature was... Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
在1912年斯德哥爾摩奧運會上，現代奧運會創始人彼埃爾?德?顧拜男爵旦引入了藝術類競技。然后該比賽中文學類金牌獲得者是……彼埃爾-德顧拜旦男爵。

Bizarre fact 6: In 1900, in France, winners got paintings instead of gold medals. Gold, silver and bronze medals weren't given out until the third modern Olympics, in 1904. The French gave the winners paintings because they believed they were more valuable.
1900年法國舉辦的奧運會上，獲勝的運動員得到的獎品是畫作，而不是金牌。1904年第三屆現代奧運會上才開始頒發金銀銅牌。據說，法國當時用畫當獎品是因為他們認為畫比獎牌更值錢。

Bizarre fact 7: The Olympics once lasted 187 days. In 1908, the London Olympics went on for 187 days... they started in April and didn't end until October.
史上歷時最久的奧運會持續了187天。1908年的倫敦奧運會4月開幕，到10月才閉幕，一直開了187天。

Bizarre fact 8: Olympic organizers have provided free condoms to athletes in the Olympic Village ever since the 1992 Games in Barcelona. Randy athletes used all 70,000 at the 2000 Games, leading to organizers supplying nearly twice that amount four years later. After a drop-off to just 100,000 free condoms at Beijing 2008, 150,000 were handed out at London 2012 and 450,000will be handed out in Rio this year.
自1992年巴塞羅那奧運會開始，奧運會組織者會為奧運村的運動員提供免費避孕套。運動員在2000場比賽中用掉全部7萬個避孕套，導致組織者在四年后的奧運會上提供近兩倍的避孕套（14萬個）。2008年北京奧運會提供的免費避孕套數量下降到10萬個之后，2012年倫敦奧運會上發放了15萬個。今年里約奧運期間，組織方將發放45萬個免費避孕套。

Bizarre fact 9: American Margaret Abbott won women's golf gold at the Paris 1900 games in bizarre circumstances. On holiday in the French capital with her mother to visit the World's Fair which was running concurrently, she took part in what she thought was merely a golf tournament to celebrate the Fair and left for the USA not knowing she had become the first-ever American gold medalist.
在1900年巴黎奧運會上，美國姑娘瑪格麗特?阿博特獲得女子高爾夫比賽金牌的經歷很奇特。她當時正與母親在巴黎度假，參觀正在進行的世界博覽會，順便參加了一場高爾夫比賽，她以為就是為了慶祝世博會舉辦的小比賽。然后她就回了美國，全然不知自己已成為美國首位奧運金牌得主。

Bizarre fact 10: Swimming at Athens 1896 involved the competitors being taken out in boats and then asked to paddle the required distance back to shore.
1896年雅典奧運會上，游泳比賽時參賽者乘船到達離海岸指定距離的海面上，然后游回到岸邊。

（中國日報網英語點津 Helen）